because it just comes across as petty. what president obama said was that he had to look out for american diplomatic personnel, foreign spokes over there and make sure they were out of a way of a mad man, a terrorist who would definitely use them as hostage if he knew that america was coming at him hard. once you saw that ferry take the americans away, immediately all sorts of statements came clear from the white house. time for you to go, mr. dictator, get out and all the pressure has been applied. bill: how about you a.b.? libya in the middle east going to be a plus or minus for mr. obama. well, as you know, we have a brush fire in the middle east and we have no idea what will happen week in week out. month in, month out. going to consume the rest of this year and maybe his presidency. i don t know how it will distract him and how he will do later on. i will agree with juan that thus far he had did what he had to do. is he walking a real tight rope and speaking to people in both
because it just comes across as petty. what president obama said was that he had to look out for american diplomatic personnel, foreign spokes over there and make sure they were out of a way of a mad man, a terrorist who would definitely use them as hostage if he knew that america was coming at him hard. once you saw that ferry take the americans away, immediately all sorts of statements came clear from the white house. time for you to go, mr. dictator, get out and all the pressure has been applied. bill: how about you a.b.? libya in the middle east going to be a plus or minus for mr. obama. well, as you know, we have a brush fire in the middle east and we have no idea what will happen week in week out. month in, month out. going to consume the rest of this year and maybe his presidency. i don t know how it will distract him and how he will do later on. i will agree with juan that thus far he had did what he had to do. is he walking a real tight rope and speaking to people in both
because it just comes across as petty. what president obama said was that he had to look out for american diplomatic personnel, foreign spokes over there and make sure they were out of a way of a mad man, a terrorist who would definitely use them as hostage if he knew that america was coming at him hard. once you saw that ferry take the americans away, immediately all sorts of statements came clear from the white house. time for you to go, mr. dictator, get out and all the pressure has been applied. bill: how about you a.b.? libya in the middle east going to be a plus or minus for mr. obama. well, as you know, we have a brush fire in the middle east and we have no idea what will happen week in week out. month in, month out. going to consume the rest of this year and maybe his presidency. i don t know how it will distract him and how he will do later on. i will agree with juan that thus far he had did what he had to do. is he walking a real tight rope and speaking to people in both
that s absolutely right, john. in this case, it s partially the fact that rubicon were one of the few western aid organizations that were really willing to go and help. there are traditional ngos on the ground here in pakistan. but as far as the fast response like you saw in haiti, the security concerns here are just too daunting for many aid workers to come. the other question is, a month out, why isn t the pakistan government, military, anyone able to do more at this point? we understand a logistical nightmare which a fifth of the country was flooded. now that we ve seen the waters recede and we ve seen, you know, the pockets of need, why can t they do more? reporter: i think it s important to understand that there s really two disasters here. there s the disaster in the north which is an infrastructure problem. the infrastructure has been devastated. and there s a disaster in the south which is the desperation problem. the south is still flooded. and the people there still